Example sentences of "[vb mod] look down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now let's look down from the bridge . |
| 2 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 3 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 4 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 5 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 6 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 7 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 8 | We could look down towards the sea , where the blue water seemed to scatter into a harmless white spray against the shore . |
| 9 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 10 | They are the ones who can look down on the competition from the grandstand near the finish on Westminster Bridge . |
| 11 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |